CVE-2025-40707 – OpenAtlas ACDH-CH Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

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CVE-2025-40707 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Aug. 29, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in OpenAtlas v8.9.0 from the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH), due to inadequate validation of user input when a POST request is sent. The vulnerabilities could allow a remote user to send specially crafted queries to an authenticated user and steal their session cookie details, via  the “/insert/place” petition, “name” and “alias-0” parameters.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CWE CWE-79
    Added Reference https://github.com/craws/OpenAtlas
    Added Reference https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/multiple-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerabilities-openatlas-acdh-ch
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